/lit/ - Literature

Okay, here's how this works, as far as I understand.

First of all, block chains are not a synonym for "e-money," okay? At least, not in an exclusionary way.

Strings of blocks primitively resemble a public distributed linked list where each block of information is irreversibly linked to a previous block in a timeline. Think of a ladder that may be missing steps or otherwise ceases to exist.

The phrase "the chain of blocks solves the problem of space and time" can be solved in the following way: time machines operate from the point in time and space where the machine exists and operates. You are looking at the chain of blocks not on the platform that exists today, but on the platforms where it can exist. To quote Harold Abelson in his introduction to LISP (and I'm paraphrasing a bit here)

>"people in the future will recognize that (computer science) was about formalizing intuitions and processes, how to do things, in the same way that geometry was born as the need to calculate the flooding of the Nile"

Of course in between we have a problem called "incompleteness of the initial question" that basically is what prevents a sentence of three words to be transmitted to all listeners with 100% fidelity but if we listen to the primitive gnostics and analytical philosophers this is not only technically embedded in reality and its perception but also bootstrapped the universe as we know it.

I don't know if human-machine merge is possible.